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Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond

by: Multiple authors

Topics: Literature, Genre, Wisdom Literature, Mesopotamia, Mesopotamian, Greece, Greek, Asia Minor, Hittite, Hittites, Assyria, Assyrian, Asori, Egypt, Egyptian, Babylon, Babylonian, Sumerian, Proverbs, Bible, Biblical, Epics, Uruk, Jerusalem, Women's History, Medicine, History, Historical, Ancient, Remote, Astronomy, Dance, Choreography
Collection: robert-bedrosian-library; patron-library-collection
Item Size: 151.5M

Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond (Venice, 2024), edited by Francesco Sironi and Maurizio Viano, in 314 bookmarked and searchable pdf pages. Internet Archive has a selection of examples of Wisdom Literature.

From the Abstract:
"The volume contains the proceedings of the workshop Wisdom Between East and West: Mesopotamia, Greece and Beyond held at the University of Turin on 26-27 October 2022 ... papers by Assyriologists, Classicists and Biblical scholars around the topic of wisdom, [investigating] wisdom from various angles, from speculative thought to literature, from science to dance to proverbs."

Table of Contents:

Introduction, by Francesco Sironi, Maurizio Viano

SECTION 1. WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE

"An Epistemological Perspective on the Mesopotamian Wisdom Tradition," by Giorgio Buccellati

"Astronomy, Ṭupšarrūtu, and Knowledge in the Cuneiform World," by Francesca Rochberg

"Truth and Falsehood in Mesopotamia and Greece: Similarities and Differences," by Francesco Sironi, Maurizio Viano

SECTION 2. SAGES AND PRACTITIONERS

"Wise Man and Poet in Ancient Greece: Features and Overlaps," by Massimiliano Ornaghi

"King, Sage, Scribe, and Priest: Seleucid Uruk and Jerusalem in Perspective," by Stéphanie Anthonioz

"Female Advisors Between East and West," by Jakub Kuciak, Sebastian Fink
"The Rational Roots of Medical Science Between Greece and Egypt," by Nicola Reggiani

"Dance in Hittite Culture: Choreography and Setting," by Stefano de Martino

SECTION 3. LITERATURE AND WISDOM TRADITIONS

"The Limit of Transmission: Babylonian Wisdom Literature and Wisdom
in Non-Cuneiform Literatures," Yoram Cohen

"From Dialogue to Debate: Argumentative and Epic Discourse in Mesopotamian Literature Between II and I Millennium BCE," by Simonetta Ponchia

"Sumerian Proverbs as Wisdom Literature," by Niek Veldhuis
"Proverbs and Wisdom Traditions in Archaic Greek Culture," by Andrea Ercolani

"Proverbs and Gnōmai in the Epic of Gilgamesh," by Bernardo Ballesteros
"Law, Morality, and Subversion in Sumerian Prose Miniatures," by Jana Matuszak